Translation of the song Un été de porcelaine artist Mort Shuman
Un été de porcelaine
A porcelain summer
Il y a quinze ans à peine
Hardly fifteen years to date,
Il y a quinze ans déjà
and yet , aualready fifteen..
Ma mémoire est incertaine
my memory is uncertain..
Mais mon cœur, lui n'oublie pas
But my heart cannot forget...
Un été de porcelaine
A summer frail as porcelain..
Un cœur pour la première fois
A heart that,for the first time,
Qui chavire et se déchaîne
capsizes and becomes wild.
Et balbutie ses premiers pas
and has its first try at walking ..
I have never forgotten
I have never forgotten
That one summer you were mine
That one summer you were mine
On a lonely beach, hidden
On a lonely beach, hidden
From all people and all time
From all people and all time.
I have never forgotten
I have never forgotten
When we walked along the shore
When we walked along the shore
One sweet kiss and your promise
One sweet kiss and your promise
To be mine for ever more
To be mine for ever more..
Des étés de porcelaine
I've known summers of porcelain,
J'en ai connus après toi
after you, very often,
Sans que jamais ne revienne
but none of them ever came
Le goût que tu leur donnas
back with the same taste you gave them...
Un jour j'ai revu la plage
One day, on the beach again,
J'ai retrouvé des enfants
I saw a few teenagers,
Qui comme nous jouaient à leur âge
who, as we'd done, the same age,
Le brouillon de leurs quinze ans
were drafting their love outline..
I have never forgotten
I have never forgotten
That one summer you were mine
That one summer you were mine
On a lonely beach, hidden
On a lonely beach, hidden
From all people and all time
From all people and all time
I have never forgotten
I have never forgotten
When we walked along the shore
When we walked along the shore
One sweet kiss and your promise
One sweet kiss and your promise
To be mine for ever more
To be mine for ever more
I have never forgotten
I have never forgotten
That one summer you were mine
That one summer you were mine
On a lonely beach, hidden
On a lonely beach, hidden
From all people and all time
From all people and all time
I have never forgotten
I have never forgotten
When we walked along the shore
When we walked along the shore
One sweet kiss and your promise
One sweet kiss and your promise
To be mine for ever more
To be mine for ever more